a Ss Ms os rage Four 2B PEO Sa ADVOCATE Organizations Ursed To Copy Resolutions Demand Jobless Insurance Urging that all organizations in British Columbia advocating he insurance send similar resolutions to Civic and federal governments and to the Quebec federal unemployment municipal, provincial S0vernment, to BC the press throughout the from last week’ ance has released for These resolutions were gates from 60 organizations, repre- senting a total of 40,000 members, attending the conference. Speakers were: Perey Bengough, secretary of Vancouver and New Westmin- ster Trades and Labor Gouncil-: Fergus McKean, provincial secre- tary of the Communist party; Harold Winch, MILA; Miss Lois Sanderson, Vancouver and Wew Westminster Youth Council. BNA AMENDMENT WHEREAS: Unemployment, now generally recognized as a nationai Social problem and one that should be a federaj responsibility, has for some years resulted in a great amount of suffering and hardship among large sections of our people, and has, because of the system of unemployment relief now in operation, resulted in in- creased taxation of homeowners and brought many municipalities to the verge of bankruptcy, and WHEREAS: The King govern- ment has already sought the con- Sent of the provinces to amend the British North America Act of 1867 in order to enable the enactment of federal unemployment insur- ance, : THEREFORE BE IT RE- SOLVED: That this conference of 107 delegates representing 60 or- @anizations of Greater Vancouver, with a combined membership of 40,000, wholeheartedly support the principle of federal unemployment insurance, and the amending of , 1€ province, the committee of ten elected S citywide conference on unemployment insur- publication the following resolutions. unani- mously endorseq by the i107 dele- members of parliament and to the BNA Act if necessary for its enactment, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: Copies of this resolution be sent to the Vancouver City Council, to the government of British Colum- bia, to the government of Quebec and to the federal government for their information and endorsation; also to British Columbia federal representatives and to the press. LABOR REPRESENTATION BE IT RESOLVED: That this eonference go on record as sup- porting the principle of unemploy- ment insurance, and recommend to the federal government the ad- visability of the early introduction of the required legislation, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: That it urge upon the executive cabinet the necessity of labor rep- resentation both in the drafting of any proposed bill and in its admin- istration when operative in the dominion. PROTEST OBSTRUCTION WHEREAS: The Duplessis gov- ernment of the province of Quebec is endeavoring to block the enact- ment of federal unemployment in- surance, THEREFORE BE iT RE- SOLVED: that this conference rep- resenting an organized member- ship in the Greater Vancouver area of 40,000 protest most strongly against the obstructive tactics of Premier Duplessis, and urge him at once to reconsider his position and withdraw all opposition. Warns Against Disrupters Reaction Will Trotskyists To Halt Unity Warning that as the forces of reaction sought to strengthen their hold on the Canadian people they would resort more to the use of Trotskyist disrupters and fascist agents within the organizations of the working class—the trade unions and the progressive political parties and, in particular, the Communist party—was made by Fergus McKean, provincial secretary of the Communist party, when he addressed a meeting of party members and sympathizers at Victory Hall, Monday. organiza-@ “What do employers’ tions do when they want to smash a strike?” he asked. “They seek by every means to discredit the union’s leadership and to create dissention within the ranks. We have every reason to know they will be doubly visious in their attempts to smash the Communist party. We must be constantly on guard against the dis- ruptive elements which will cer- tainly aitempt to penetrate the frade unions and working class parties.” McKean pointed to the increased activities of the Trotskyist-con- trolled Socialist-Labor party in this province as a sign that reac- tion was prepared to utilize the Trotskyists to mislead the people. “We must expose them, just as the Trotskyist POUM in Spain, which used assassination and spy- ing in its attempts to disrupt the people’s front, has been exposed,” McKean declared. The speaker traced the growth of fascism in Hurope and its spread throughout the world and showed how the creation of a people’s front in France had made that country a bulwark of democracy and peace Use Fascists, —Fersus McKean when otherwise it too, must have passed under fascism. ‘With Premier Duplessis foster- ing the growth of fascism in Que- bec, with fascism organizing in other provinces and reaction pre- paring its bid for a national coali- tion government of the Conserya- tive party, the right wing of the Liberal party and possibly other groupings, the progressive forces must build that economic and poli- tical unity of the working class which is the base for the people’s front of all progressives against fascism and for democracy,’ as- serted McKean. Tom Ewen, central committee member of the party, gave a short speech on party financing, urging the building of a larger party membership in order to spread the burden of financing the activities of the party over a wider section of the people. “Never before was the need for action greater and yet, as always, our finances, supplied by the nic- kels and dimes of the working class, are far short of our requirements,” he stated. Ald. J. B. Salsberg On Picket Line TORONTO, Ont., March 3._J. B. Salsberg, Labor’s representative on the city council, and Henry Segal, organizer for the Cleaners and Dyers’ Union, picketed the Star Cleaners here one day last week while hundreds of Toronto’s citizens lined both sides of the street and police attempted to keep the crowd moving. Salsberg and Segal parad- ed up and down in front of the premises, their placards catching the eye of thousands of homeward- bound workers. Star Cleaners is a subsidiary of White and Sons which recently broke its contract with the union and locked out employees. Over 200 From B.C. . . The Flower of Canadian Youth — Are Defend- ing Democracy in Spain. India Alarmed By Aggression MADRAS, India, March 3.—In- dians of all political shades are alarmed at the meaning to them of the Japanese war of aggression. They are beginning to agitate more strongly for a share in the defense of their own iand. At present In- dian Army units (non-Furopean) are carefully hand-picked from anti-popular elements. The Con- gress now demands that training shall be extended to the popular masses and that mechanized units should be thrown open to Indians, instead of being confined, with the heavy artillery, entirely to the British section of the forces. _ ON THE FARM FRONT Pedigreed Bird Some of the University of British Columbia poultry farm’s pedigreed stock. The farm ships to all parts of Canada, the US, the West Indies, Europe and the Far East. Most difficult was a shipment of eggs to the interior of China Death Stalks Farm Hands Many Dying From Lack Of Food in Rich Fruit Growing Districts of California. WASHINGTON, DC, March 3— Death and disease stalk among the farm workers in the fertile valleys of California according to Dr. Omer Mills, regional economist for the Farm Security Administration. Following a field trip covering San Joaquin Valley and other Cali- fornia agricultural districts Mills issued a formal statement describ- ing the miserable squatter camps of the farm workers and the mal- nutrition and starvation of farm families and their children. Of 30 children examined in one county, he said, 27 were found to be defective through malnutrition disease. Im another ditch-bank camp, 21 of 22 infants examined were defective because of the lack of sufficient food. In other counties conditions are even worse, he said. Children in Tulare county are dying at the rate of one or two a day. it is estimated that approximately 13,000 families will be in desperate need during the next three months. San Joaquin valley is ruled by the large fruit growers who reap thou- sands each year from the fertile soil and rich fruit orchards. Pecan=Shellers Firm In Strike SAN ANTONIO, Tex., March 3— (ONS) — Five thousand striking pecan-shellers in the San Antonio area, members of the CIO Can- nery, Agricultural and Packing Workers’ Union, are holding firm after three weeks of their walkout, in which they have been met with police violence, including whole- sale arrests, clubbing, and tear gas on the picket line. Causes of the strike were report- ed as follows by the State Indus- trial Commission, sent to investi- gate by Governor Allred: “We find wages paid to pecan workers abnormally low and living conditions insupportable. We find no justification for police prohibit- ing picketing or assembling of workers.” Only Flock In Canada U.B.C. Experiments © With New Variety The University of British Columbia is now experimenting with its small flock of Cambars, a new variety developed by Professor Pease of Cambridge University. A cross between a Golden Campine male and a Barred Rock female, the Cambar has the great advantage of being auto-sexing, since the male is hatched considerably darker than the female. The UBC poultry farm supplied the Barred Rock hens for breed- ing the new variety and in return received a Cambar cockerel and two hens from which its present flock, the only one of its kind in Canada, was developed. Several years’ experimental work will be required however, before the new breed can be used commercially. Scott Henderson, one of the two brothers who have leased the poul- try farm for the past three years, told the writer this in giving an outline of the farm’s work this week. in line with the policy of the federal department of agriculture, | the Henderson brothers are now directing their efforts to produc- tion of improved market types. Scott Henderson agreed howsver, that high feed costs rendered it impossible to produce for the meat market alone. HIGH FEED COSTS “It’s a difficult problem for the straight producer to keep his end up,” Henderson said. “There’s no doubt that present eges prices are entirely out of line with high feed costs. Quite frankly, I don’t see how some of them are managing to keep going.” The main obstacle to producers wishing to import their own feed from the prairies, he stated, was the $1,500 cash deposit required. In 1936, three hundred of the poultry farm’s Barred Rock, Rhode Island Red and White Leghorn birds were given ROP tests. Last year this number was increased to 500. Eventually, these records will prove invaluable to breeders. Since 1919, when records were first kept, production has shown a steady increase as the following table reveals: 1919: Low 175; 1924: Low 200; 1929: Low 230; 1934: Low 250; High 225 High 250 High 290 High 300 e Urges Joint Organization Censumer Cooperatives Conference Is Told That Farmers, Consumers Are Interdependent. WASHINGTON, DC, March 3.— Interdependence of farm producers and city consumers was emphasized here by R. N. Benjamin, president, Pennsylvania Farm Bureau Fed- eration, and Donald Montgomery, consumers’ counsel, AAA, speaking before the Interfaith Conference en Consumers Co-operatives and Credit Unions. Benjamin declared the solution of the problem of over-production and low prices for farmers could not be found in organization by producers alone. “Of our intimate knowledge,” he said, “no producer or marketing association has in any way come near to solving the marketing problem except by some form of producer-consumer com- pact. Wot until the producers are privileged to meet the organized consumer at the city gate may we hope to attain success in this direction.” This last high average has been maintained since 1934 and new ad- vances have been made in hatcha- bility and meat qualities. The UBC extension department is now sponsoring a series of poul- try lectures by Varley Dickinson at Abbotsford, Bradner, Chilliwack, Port Haney, Coquitlam and Lang- Housewives 4h a —— oes CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING Classified, 3 ae and contract rates on application’ Form League Committee Set Up In City Will Launch Cam- paign Against High Bread, Milk Costs. Formation of a Greater YVancou- ver Housewives’ League, to combat the rising cost of living by utilizing mass buying power as the lever to lower prices and better products, was decided Monday at a meeting of the initiative committee, mem-— bers of which are: Mrs. A. Boyle, Mrs. M. Lusk, Mrs. R. A. Prinn, Mrs. E. W. Winter, H. J. Logan, E. Breffitt, R. Riley? W. R. Bradbury was elected organizer. Beginning with two staples, bread and milk, the commiuttee plans to issue an initial leaflet this week to housewives in Mount Pleasant district, to be followed by a canvass for members. A pledge to buy these two commodities through the league will be sought and membership cards issued. In a statement to the PA, Brad- bury declared the initiative commiut- tee is the deciding body at this stage of the Housewives League, and that his work would be to or- ganize the canvassing for member ship. : “TJ feel very strongly on the hard- ships endured by thousands of citi- zens in their present helplessness against ruinous living costs, and I believe the league will go a long way toward giving the consumer a better deal,” Bradbury stated. He felt that the calibre of the initiative committee afforded ample protec- tion against abuses which might ereep In such a movement, stating that the committee should be broadened as soon as the organiza- tion began to develop. Claim Reduction Possible The leaflet now being distributed explains why consumers are forced to pay 5 cents distribution costs on every quart of milk delivered; shows that over 550 milk wagons from 17 city dairies, as well as over 250 producer-vendors wrangle over supplying a bare 25 thousand gallons of milk daily to the 40,000 Vancouver homes, with children so- ing short because of the high price and poor average quality. Declaring that milk should not be more than 8 cents a quart and that it should contain 4 per cent butterfat instead of the present 3.25 per cent, and claiming the proper price of bread should be 6 cents a loaf, the leaflet states that the Situation can be changed without adversely affecting the producer. The Housewives’ League will be of a non-profit nature, not con- nected with any business venture and non-partisan, its strength to lie in the united purchasing power of its membership. “This committee aims at a demo- cratic movement without a con- trolling clique, with all expenses cut to the bone, and all transac- tions to be annuonced at meetings and by circulars to members,” states one paragraph of the leaflet. A saving of 70 cents a month on the loaf of bread and 56 cents a month on 1 quart of milk delivered daily, through the League, is com- puted by the committee, names and addresses of members being given on the leaflet. Further information, it is stated can be obtained from W. R. Brad bury, 1114 Pendrill street, Vancou- ver, BC. Telephone Trin. 5748-R. Victoria Magazine Shop VICTORIA ROAD ley. _ Next to Victoria Theatre BILLIARDS MT. 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PERSONAL CHINESE HERBS RELIEVE ALL ailments, such as: Kidney, Rhen- matism, Skin Diseases or Stomach Trouble. Call at 11 W. Pender St POULTRY SUPPLIES QUEEN HATCHERY — BABY chicks, White Leghorns, Barred Rocks, R. I Reds and custom hatchinges. Write for catalogue. Queen Hatchery, 36 W. Cordova, Vancouver B.C. in town see us for your Laundry. © SIGN PAINTING every description, signs, ABAEABAEBADR Carl. 167L. TERRY McCOY— PAINTING OF show- cards, graining. 4775 Rupert St.